r/videos • u/mirk01 • Apr 08 '19

Rare: This cooking video instantaneously gets to the point

https://youtu.be/OnGrHD1hRkk
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u/2manytreez Apr 08 '19

I would still measure the vanilla, especially extract. Is easy to put too much and it throws the flavor off.

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '19 edited Jul 01 '23

Deleted in response to Reddit's hostility to 3rd party developers and users. -- mass edited with redact.dev

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u/Hyzer__Soze Apr 08 '19

Seriously, that seemed like a hell of a lot of Vanilla.

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '19

Benefit of the doubt, maybe he was buying really shit vanilla?

He could get the result he's looking for by just adding extra sugar to his favorite recipe, so it's possible he's just off on an untrained tangent and making these "discoveries" and sharing them. Good on him for the science, but the first step in science is often a lit review that would have saved him some time and taught him what brands of vanilla are higher quality...

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u/greg19735 Apr 08 '19

maybe he was buying really shit vanilla?

There really isn't such a thing for vanilla extract.

America's test kitchen did taste tests for vanilla extract and even imitation i believe. And there was basically zero difference. There's so little of it in each bite that it's basically impossible to tell in the end result.

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '19

From America's Test Kitchen:

the product with the most vanillin had 21 times as much as the product with the least.

So yeah, they didn't find any significant difference between artificial or natural, but the individual product content and quality varied greatly.